2011/11/14 Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 23:13 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote: >> I have an USB laser printer (Samsung ML-1610): should it be discovered >> by Fedora? how long does it take the discovery process?? >> Manual set-up work flawlessly. > > In general, USB printers should be discovered and automatically > configured in Fedora. It can take up to a couple of minutes to do this. > The reason it is slow is that the foomatic printer driver database takes > a very long time to load (but work is in the pipeline to speed this up). > > For the Samsung ML-1610 specifically however, there is no driver we can > ship which drives it. > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1610 > > Tim. > */ > > > -- Tim why the prinetr is immediately found if I use system-config-printer and a driver is installed? It is not important, just for my understanding of how it works -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 Linux Fedora 16 Verne -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
